[Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Thu Apr 12 00:05:59 UTC 2018
I understand, and live your frustration, but while I am not a lawyer,
I don't think there is a legal hook to hang your hat on, in this
arena. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't do a resolution -- but to
who. The Consumer Technology Association is starting to pay a little
attention to accessibility -- but still has a long way to go. There
may be appliance groups -- I don't know.
Dave
At 06:58 PM 4/11/2018, you wrote:
>I understand that this list is sponsored by the crafters division. I
>believe that we need a resolution to address the large number of an
>accessible appliances that are excluding blind people. If an
>accessible websites the violate the ADA, some of these appliance
>manufacturers should be taken to task as well. They are going above
>and beyond to exclude blind people by creating an accessible touch
>screens that are impossible to label because the menus change. I was
>trying to get a new coffee maker, and it was very hard to find one
>with buttons. Smart appliances are also great, but blind people
>should not be forced to use them to make up for lack of
>accessibility. We are paying customers and we deserve to be able to
>buy appliances that we can use. We do not deserve to get shut out of
>all of these new appliances, and we do not deserve companies that go
>so far as to put in their instructions manual that we should not use
>their products. This is wrong because it is discriminatory, and if a
>blind person is using a product, and that product actually is
>defective, unsafe, or has a problem, the company can try to get out
>of it by saying that a blind person should not have been using it in
>the first place according to their manual. I do not know how to
>write a resolution or I would do it. I don't even know what
>resolution would help. And we will also have to frame the resolution
>in such a way that other blind people won't take away focus from it
>by saying that we are entitled for wanting access to smart
>appliances like they did with the Apple resolution. What do you all think?
>
>Sabra Ewing
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